How Much Is Tim Ferriss Worth?

Tim Ferris is an American entrepreneur, author, and podcaster who is estimated to have a net worth of around $100 million as of 2019.

He mostly earned from his investments, book royalties, merchandise sales and a short term career on Television.

How American Entrepreneur Tim Ferriss Make Money?

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Tim Ferriss is estimated to have a net worth of $100 million as of 2019 whereas The Richest claims his net worth to be around $20 million. He mainly earns from his career as an American entrepreneur, author, and podcaster.

In 2000, after receiving a degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, he worked in the position of sales at a data storage company. The following year, he founded an internet-based nutritional supplements business, BrainQUICKEN.

Eventually, he changed the company’s name to BodyQuick and sold to a London-based investment management company in 2010 for around half a billion dollars.

Tim Ferriss: An American Entrepreneur and Angel Investors

Did You Know? Ferriss holds a record in the Guinness Book of World Records for the title of most consecutive tango spins in a minute. He set the record on the show Live with Regis and Kelly.

As of now, Ferriss is running a podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, covering topics about personal and character development. Moreover, he also talks about writing, venture capital, acting/movies, and metaphysics. He has interviewed celebrities like LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen King, and many others.

Tim Ferriss interviewing Arnold Schwarzenegger

A source reported that a podcast owner earns an average of $10,000 to $100,000 per episode. Furthermore, as of 2018, the top-notch podcasts earns more than $10 million through advertisement deals only.

Besides running the podcast, he also collects a huge sum of money from investments in several firms and organizations. He is often regarded as the angel investor, a wealthy person who provides capital for a business start-up.

He has invested in several startup companies including Evernote, Posterous, StumbleUpon, DailyBurn, Shopify, Reputation.com and Trippy. Ferriss also owns a small number of stakes in Uber, Facebook, and Twitter. He has advised for establishing businesses like Garret Camp, TaskRabbit and many others.

Back in 2013, he made a profit of around $250 thousand within an hour by investing in a shipping company Shyp. At the end of the fiscal year, he raised $500 thousand from the same company while the company made a total sum of $2.1 million. Shyp was dissolved in 2018.

For his profitable investing ideas and advice to startups, he was listed among the CNN’s list of Notable Angel Investors, and one of the planet’s leading angel investors in technology.

In 2013, Ferriss launched his own audiobook publishing house, Tim Ferriss Publishing. He retired from investing stating that he planned to take on his writing career and media projects.

Tim Ferriss book: Tribe Of Mentors

Tim Ferriss discussed the period of establishing and selling his business ventures on his self-authored book The 4-Hour Workweek. His other notable published books are:

The 4-Hour Workweek (2007 and reprised in 2009)

The 4-Hour Body (2010)

The 4-Hour Chef (2012)

Tools of Titans (2016)

Tribe of Mentors (2017)

Interesting Fact: Tim Ferriss is accused of hacking the review system of Jeff Bezos’ Amazon.

The Tim Ferriss Experiment

Moving unto his media appearance, he appeared in several movies and TV shows like Trial by Fire, The Tim Ferriss Experiment, and Fear {Less}.

Social Media Earnings, Charity Works

Tim Ferriss is active on YouTube who makes an average of $121 to $1.9 thousand per month and $1.5 thousand to $23.2 thousand per annum from YouTube. As of September 2019, he has around 480 thousand subscribers.

Ferriss is currently a member of the National Advisory Council for DonorsChoose. He donated around $5 thousand for the campaign to bring clean water to Gereb Tetealo Community, Ethiopia, and 12 other projects.

He also made a donation of $100 thousand in 2016 to research the significance of psychedelic drugs for the treatment of major depression.

Tim Ferriss bought a house in San Jose, California. He bought the residence for $499 thousand in 2010. He has been living in his mansion featuring 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, gym, Bar, Swimming Pool, and Library. Well, he does not own a car but often rents a car for years.

Tim Ferriss's rented car

He is said to have health insurance from the Ehealth insurance company. Regarding his tax payments, he pays 8.25 % of his income as the income tax, property tax, and state tax.

Ferriss mostly spends his income on house maintenance, foods, trendy clothes, tax and insurance payments, miscellaneous expenditures and other daily expenses.

The Personal Life Of Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss aka Timothy Ferriss was born on 20 July 1977 in East Hampton, New York, the United States. He grew up in his hometown and later moved to Concord, New Hampshire. He holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnic group.

What Is The Relationship Status Of Tim Ferriss?

According to sources, Tim Ferris is possibly single as of 2019. He is currently living a secretive life and has not revealed much about his personal life and his dating life. He is yet to introduce someone as his wife/girlfriend.